From the TRICARE Benefits Updates: Your Environment and Your Body: How Exposure to Mold and Lead May Impact Your Health (4/1/19) Who You See for Care Matters: TRICARE Provider Types (3/29/29) Bring Your Tricare Benefit Questions to April 4 Webinar (3/26/29) – See...

From the Agencies: From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - A new mobile app for smartphones, tablets, and laptop computers to help patients prepare for medical visits. The AHRQ Question Builder app - available at no charge from iTunes and Google...

YOUR INPUT SOUGHT Survey to Improve Caregiver Hospital Experience The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is analyzing the hospital visitor experience. If you are someone in the United States that has either visited a loved one in a hospital OR identifies as a...

Identifying and Serving Children with Health Complexity: Spotlight on Pediatric Care Together Thursday, March 14, 1:30-2:30 pm ET Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health The webinar will be a discussion about the report, Identifying and Serving Children with...

President’s Budget Proposal On Monday, March 11, the president released his budget proposal for FY 2020, which begins on October 1, 2019. Among other things, his budget proposes to turn Medicaid into a state block grant, and mandate that states establish work...

Medical Expense Deduction On March 4, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), Finance Committee Chairman and Ranking Member, respectively, introduced the Tax Extender and Disaster Relief Act of 2019 (S. 617). The bill would extend, for an additional two...

Medicaid Waivers Several states (MS, OK, SD, TN) have requested Medicaid waivers to establish “community engagement” (work, school) requirements on extremely low-income parents/caretakers of children on Medicaid. On March 6, over 50 healthcare organizations sent a...

Ask KFF: Karen Pollitz Answers 3 Questions on Why Insurers Deny Claims (Kaiser Family Foundation, 3/6/19) Shopping for a Short-Term Plan? The Information You Get about it Will Depend on Your State (blog of the Georgetown Center on Health Insurance Reform, 3/7/19)...

What is a TRICARE Qualifying Life Event? (TRICARE Benefit Update, 3/7/19) WORTH REPEATING: Everything You Need to Know about Filing Medical Claims (TRICARE Benefits Update, 3/1/19)

From the Agencies Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): DTAC Bulletin: Disaster Planning and Preparedness and People with Serious Mental Illness Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health: The report State and...